The Outsider and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The opening lines of the novel, The Outsider by Albert Camus, set the tone for the book: "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know" (pg. 9), it is a dreary and depressing sentence, so are the thoughts of a character by the name of Meursault. However, the circumstances that took place, plunged him into a spiral of events. Strangely, his thoughts stayed the same, yet …showed first 75 words of 1389 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1389 total…did do something; he took a drastic action in the daydream and in the real world. It seemed that he was slowly preparing for the time when he will get back into all that he might have felt a reason to hide from. Meursault and Mitty are both confronted with a change, a change that will end their lives, as they know it, and it appeared that they finally found the freedom to be happy.